Dark Munster

Give enough Donkeys enough footballs ....

Someone predicted it a couple of years ago and got it completely wrong.

Yep, the "special one" is in full "sack me so I can bugger off with millions" mode. When do we play them? No doubt a first class manager will have been installed by then and they'll be back to their best.

Good it wasn't a Champions league game tonight. Well maybe not, we'll lose anyway.

Yes, and Welbeck has a good record for England (and unlucky to have a goal disallowed in his last outing for them). It would've been very surprised if Southgate had chosen Ings over him.

This, in a nutshell. It boggles the mind that the morons who kept the clown on for as long as they did, and on top of that bought him a £20 million donkey, are still with us.

Compared to us they are a big club.

Yep. Just like Palace last season.

On my stream it also looked like Redmond and Lamina were yelling at each when the latter misplaced a pass to the former. So several instances of two players bickering. What does each pair have in common? ?

Claude could, but he's not available.

Bring Nige home.

Good defending Cedric

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Agree with all of that Neef, except it wasn't the fans that pushed Puel out, by all accounts it was certain prima donna players.

No, it's testament how well Puel did with those 2 gone. When we lost VVD and Fonte he sensibly set us up to play more cautiously, which he got pilloried for by some clueless fans (and sacked by the clueless board).

Basically disagree with what you are saying. Go read Turkish's excellent post again, especially the bit about having the worst pair of centre halves in the league after Van Dijk got injured and Fonte got sold and not replaced, having our two best sources of goals in Pelle and Mane sold and replaced with Austin, who spent half the season injured, and having our best defensive midfielder sold. All of which you conveniently ignore.

Lancs awarded five penalty runs during the lunch interval after the ball hit the fielding helmet at the end of the morning session. https://www.bbc.com/sport/live/cricket/45567221/page/4 If those had pushed them just over 300 Notts would have been apoplectic!

Lancs relegated, but 27 runs more and they could've had a great escape. Notts are getting thrashed, and Hants opening pair already gone (what a surprise). Soames' average is single digits, and Weatherley's season average is about 24. (I was surprised to see Northeast's is about as bad). Throw in Adams retiring and that is a lot of batting weakness to address for next season.

Presumably they're joining for first division cricket (Clarke in particular). Hants could help ruin that plan by gifting Lancs 24 points and help send Notts down.

1-0 I think, and they parked the bus and nicked it on the break. Our only chance of a similar result was to do the same. If we'd "gone for it" we would've almost certainly got slaughtered, which is the point most are trying to make.

Exactly this. "Failing while going for it" would be asking for a jolly good rogering, even more so with our only semi-decent striker not available.

Puel. But he's currently not available.

I'd rather a strapping cart horse than a donkey.